Data centers are not allowed in the residential regulatory zones, Parks and Recreation, General Rural, or General Rural Agricultural zones.

Data centers in the General Commercial, Neighborhood Commercial/Office, Tourist Commercial, Public/Semi-Public Facilities, and Open Space zones require a Board of Adjustment special use permit.

Data centers are allowed without the table’s discretionary-use designation in the Industrial zone, but must still comply with the Development Code and applicable industrial standards.

Projects of regional significance, including a data center if it meets the applicable criteria, require additional review under Article 812.

Data-center development in an Industrial zone must comply with industrial standards for noise, setbacks, screening and buffering, parking, and signs before a building permit or business license can be issued.

Industrial data centers may not emit odors perceptible to the average person at or beyond the property line, may not cause perceptible ground vibration beyond the property line, and must prevent lighting spillover or glare onto adjoining properties.

Industrial data centers that emit or may emit air contaminants must register and operate in accordance with Washoe County District Health Department requirements.

Industrial data centers are subject to access restrictions, including limits on driveway access, shared-access requirements for certain adjoining parcels, and restrictions on truck traffic using local residential streets.

An industrial data-center proposal generating 80 or more peak-hour trips requires a traffic report; projects generating more than 750 average daily trips must address transportation-demand measures, and projects must fund required on-site and use-related off-site transportation improvements.

Industrial data centers must have a maximum verified fire and emergency medical response time of 10 minutes, a maximum police response time of 15 minutes, community-water service with specified water dedication unless otherwise approved, and community wastewater service with specified disposal capacity unless otherwise approved.

Industrial data-center buildings larger than 50,000 square feet must include articulated and decorated facades, height variations, and transparency such as windows.

Proposed industrial data centers involving on-site hazardous-substance holding require a special use permit, a hazardous-substance inventory, a risk-management and prevention plan approved by the fire-protection agency, and review by the Health District and fire-protection agency.

Within the Truckee Meadows Service Area, diesel-fueled internal-combustion power-generation units synchronized with the regional electric grid are prohibited, except during emergency conditions, unforeseen grid disturbances, maintenance activities, or transmission limitations.

The Reno Technology Park data-center project required a development-agreement amendment and associated special-use-permit modifications because its revised boundary crossed four zoning categories.

The Reno Technology Park data-center project also required planned Master Plan, Development Code, and regulatory-zone amendments, with Planning Commission review, a neighborhood meeting, and Board of County Commissioners approval.

The code creates a distinct “Data Center” use classification for facilities that house equipment such as computers, servers, switches, routers, and data-storage devices used to store, manage, process, and exchange digital information. This gives data centers a defined zoning category instead of requiring case-by-case classification. Data Center use type

Data centers are allowed by right in the Industrial (I) regulatory zone, meaning an industrially zoned project does not need a discretionary special-use permit solely for the data-center use, although it must still comply with other Development Code requirements. Data Center is allowed in the Industrial zone

Data centers may be permitted in specified commercial and other regulatory zones through a Board of Adjustment special-use permit rather than a zoning-map amendment. The table identifies special-use-permit treatment in General Commercial, Neighborhood Commercial/Office, Tourist Commercial, Public/Semi-Public Facilities, and Open Space zones, subject to the applicable table entries and review requirements. Special-use-permit entries for Data Center

The Reno Technology Park development agreement amendment permits construction and operation of a technology park in a Special Development Area and modifies related special-use-permit case numbers, providing project-specific approval for the technology-park development. permits the construction and operation of a certain Technology Park

The Reno Technology Park amendment recognizes zoning categories created by a changed project boundary so the affected parcels can be used for a data center. new property line extended into four different zoning categories

The Reno Technology Park development agreement provides for future amendments to the Washoe County Master Plan and Development Code specific to the Special Development Area, creating an identified mechanism for later code and plan changes affecting the technology park. provides for future amendments to the Washoe County Master Plan and the Washoe County Development Code

An industrial development containing a data center may include one caretaker’s residence for on-site security. An attached caretaker’s residence is allowed in the Industrial zone, while a detached caretaker’s residence may be approved with an administrative permit; the residence is limited to one per employer and parcel, must be tied to an active industrial use, and may not exceed 2,000 square feet. caretaker’s residence for an industrial use